Memories, speak: in a novel by Monika Zgustova, the story of Véra and Vladimir Nabokov’s marriage, and the fallout of an early affair, is triangulated through a prism of perspectives. A …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMIn Diane Seuss’s sixth collection, a cobbling together of forms and forbears. Modern Poetry: Poems, by Diane Seuss, Graywolf Press, 112 pages, $26 • • …
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMIs Anne Carson nice or happy? Right or wrong question? Wrong Norma, by Anne Carson, New Directions, 191 pages, $17.95 • • • In May 2017, the New Yorker published a prose…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMAudrey Schulman’s new novel tells a profound tale of mind control, misogyny, language learning, and interspecies connections at a 1960s marine research facility. The Dolphin House, by Aud…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMAphorisms and aesthetics: a new translation reveals the strange stylings of writer, artist, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. Secrets of Beauty, by Jean Cocteau, translated by Juliet Powys, Eris…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMIn Derrida’s lectures, a generously ambiguous approach to thinking about paradox, power, and borders during a time of global emergency. Hospitality, Volume I, by Jacques Derrida, translat…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMA River of Gentrification Runs Through It: Jonathan Lethem’s new fiction chronicles neighborhood tales from the ’60s to the present. Brooklyn Crime Novel, by Jonathan Lethem, Ecco, 373 …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMTwenty-six poems by Ben Lerner grapple with the language of poetics at the intersection of contemporary private life and political darkness. The Lights: Poems, by Ben Lerner, Farrar, Straus…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMWherever you go, there you are: in Deborah Levy’s new novel, a disgraced concert pianist drifting around Europe repeatedly runs into a doppelgänger. August Blue, by Deborah Levy, Farrar…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMScholar Florian Fuchs’s new book argues for short-form writing’s potential to transform a reader’s “lifeworld.” Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Liter…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMTacita Dean has been unveiled as the next artist to exhibit in the Tate Modern turbine hall. Her current show and recent films – about decay, beauty and nostalgia – mark her out as one o…
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